08/28/2023

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 08/28/2023
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Article English
Title: ‘Tipflation’: You don’t have to tip at the counter, etiquette experts say—why workers disagree
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/24/workers-customers-and-etiquette-experts-debate-tipping-at-the-counter.html
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🎧 PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE

▶counter /KOWN-tr/
▶instances /IN-stuhn-siz/
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌Quandary (noun) - A situation where you're uncertain about what to do, often feeling stuck between different choices.

Example sentence: She faced a quandary when trying to decide whether to accept a job offer in another city or stay close to her family.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: We were 6 of us. Actually, we were supposed to gather 7 members.
✔Better say: There were 6 of us, but we were expecting 7 people. // There were supposed to be 7 of us, but only 6 showed up. // We were supposed to be 7, but only 6 of us came.

✖You said: We made our gathering name. We made name of team.
✔Better say: We named our group.

✖You said: People have a confusion about tipping in the shops.
✔Better say: People are confused about tipping in shops. // Tipping in shops is confusing for people.// Many people are unsure about how much to tip in shops. // There is some confusion about tipping in shops.
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🔴 Homework:
Please take note of what you learned in this lesson and apply it in your future conversations.
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📝 NEXT LESSON:
Course: Debate English
Book: Express Yourself 1
Title/Page: Points to Ponder 5 (page 63)